Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 144

The little boy lay in his bed; he did not know if he had dreamed or not, or if he had been listening while someone told him the story.

Who acts: little boy, boy, someone · What happens: lie, not know, dream, listen, tell · To what, where: bed, story, boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little boy, boy, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	nsubj
4	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 bed	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 bed	nmod:poss
7	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 know	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 know	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 know	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 know	advmod
12	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lay	conj
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 dreamed	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 dreamed	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 dreamed	aux
16	dreamed	dream	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 know	ccomp
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 not	cc
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 dreamed	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 listening	punct
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 listening	cc
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 listening	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 listening	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 listening	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 listening	aux
25	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 lay	advcl
26	while	while	SCONJ	_	28 told	mark
27	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	28 told	nsubj
28	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 listening	advcl
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 told	iobj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 story	det
31	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 told	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	lie	past	the little boy			boy's bed	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location
2	not know	past · do-support	boy				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	dream a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	boy				vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
4	listen a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · progressive	boy				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	tell speech: assert	past	someone	the story	boy		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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